Abstract
As the mobile communication technologies evolving, spectrum resource has become extremely scarce. Accordingly, spectrum aggregation (SA) is proposed as an emerging solution to efficiently utilize the dispersive resource. To address such a challenging issue, this paper introduces power domain into the conventional SA which only works in the time and frequency domains, and extends the resource block (RB), which is a time-frequency spectrum management unit in LTE standard, to a time-frequency-power spectrum unit termed resource cube. Based on this, a novel radio resource management (RRM) scheme is proposed to manage the spectrum with multiplexing division in time, frequency, and power domains (3D) simultaneously. Through theoretical derivations, we show that under certain simplifications, the proposed 3D RRM could be formulated as a convex objective function with linear constrains, and can be solved with low computational complexity. When compared with the conventional RB-based RRM, the proposed 3D RRM matches the real-time requirement in SA. Furthermore, it is proved that the proposed scheme could achieve better energy efficiency than the RB-based ones.
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